PT. V. 



THE PARK PINETUM. 



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By comparison with the pleasure-ground pinetum, 

 the park pinetum is infinite and eternal ; that is, any 

 number of plants may be grown, and the greater the 

 number, and the greater their size, the greater the 

 beauty and interest of the pinetum. 



But short-lived mortals claim the short-lived plea- 

 sure of the present hour, and a very little present pretty 

 effect is greatly preferred to any quantity of infinity 

 and eternity. And I do not mean to condemn lawn 

 pinetums ; on the contrary, I think them inappreciably 

 beautiful. What I plead for is, that we should also 

 plant posterity park pinetums. If we do not live to see 

 their beauty ourselves, we shall not die the sooner for 

 having created it for those who succeed us on this 

 earth. And must he be a liar who says he loves the 

 neighbour whom he has not seen ? 



Pinuses should be planted out when from six inches 

 to a foot high. I shall detail the method which I have 

 followed, as my own labourer, in a small park pinetum 

 since 1837. 



Dig a pit five feet in diameter, but go no deeper 

 than the good upper soil ; throw the earth out ; add 

 and mix as much good soil as you can afford. Having 

 to wheel it myself, I used to think three barrows of 

 road-sand from the nearest ditch a quantum, and half- 

 a-dozen barrows a liberal allowance. In replacing the 

 earth, put the turf at the bottom, and form a flat, low 

 eminence brimming over the pit on to the undug 

 ground outside, so that, when the loose earth in the pit 



